Show STAR ROUTE I The Corrui > tlbl Jury Washington 9 A statement said to have been voluntarily made by Frank B Fall under oath on Octo f ber 10th is made public today It begins by asserting that he ob tamed the impression from an inter view with Brewster Cameron June 14th that the government desired I to obtain evidence of misconduct of the star route jury past or future j I that he was engaged at 810 per diem to ascertain if any of the I members ot the jury were corrupt ible that he reported to Cameron I I every night On June 24th he talked with Thomas A Foote col j ored juror in the circuit court t i from information obtained from f Richard F Laws he concluded that Brown the star route juror was I approachable and told Foote so Ii I that he afterwards negotiated with Paine and Foote looking to securing t control of Browns vote A contract was drawn contemplating paying Ii 2500 and was presented to Brown m f by Payne but the former refused to i l sign the paper saying it was a de r ective job Brown however said he would do as wanted if paid 82 OOand wOuld control juror Martin t FaIl refused to pay the money without J with-out > the contract being signed Seeing See-ing by the newspapers on September 25th that Erown had made an affi i i avit chafging Payne with attempting i attempt-ing to bribe him Pall sousrht inter 1 view with the latter when Pa yne declared Browns statement a lie Brown offered to sell his vote to whosoever wanted it for 2500 Payne pleaded poverty and asked for a loan which Fall usedunless he would make a sworn statement Payne promised but did not appear All efforts to find him failed until October ind when he was encountered countered in the Baltimore and Potomac Po-tomac depot He then reported that his failure to keep the engagement engage-ment was due to overtures made by Charles Jones and Mr Mall for a meeting between him Payne detective tective Miller Mayor Richards and Brown looking to the getting of a statement from Foote who mean time had gone to Newark Richards gave him 20 in response to the demand Richards and Payne started for Newark Richards paid all the bills They saw Foote and got an affidavit Foote wanted 520000 for the affidavit and wanted tit t-it left in Pajnes hands until he got the money Foote finally wrote a letter Mhich Payne brought to i Washinirton addressed to Brad i Dorsev SC demanding SlOOO before be-fore the affidavit should be delivered t deliv-ered Richards threatened to get Payne to make an affidavit which should agree with what Foote said I I in his Payne said he wanted J 1500 for his affidavit and he denied de-nied making it until that time I Payne wanted advice of a lawyer before he would make affidavit They wanted him to go to Col Cook and make affidavit in his office Payne wanted to advise with Col Ingersoll Richards telegraphed I for ColIngersoll and Richards and Miller took Payne to Col IngersolTs house on Sunday Oct 1st and there Cot Ingersoll read the aflidavit and said the affidavits were wanted for a purpose by Downing Attorney General Brewster Cameron and Corkhill all of whom would have to go when Congress met and began investigating into the star route business and it was agreed Foote should make affidavit and give it to Payne and Payne should hold the affidavit until he made his own or until they got 1000 which Foote demanded lor his Bat that Major Richards got possession of the affidavit affi-davit in Newark and refused to give it up lie was discharged from the department of justice July 17th while acting for the government govern-ment Pall says he was to spread the impression he was working in the interest of the defense and authorized Skivington to say so The result was John G Cox was approached ap-proached by him repeatedly and said he had two jurors for sale and whenever Fall had the money Cox engaged to bring in the men Richard Rich-ard 1 Laws claimed that through Brown he brought about the disagreement r dis-agreement of the jury Laws said he was employed by the defense to influence Brown and did so they being neighbors and on terms of brotherly intimacy while a man named Ludington also claimed to control the vote and offered to deliver de-liver it anytime when the money was forthcoming |